Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Thursday 2009-02-12 19:57, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
Are you sure it is safe to use arch-dependent types like 'int'?
I would be very surprised if Linux will ever run on weird arch where int
is not 32 bits.
If GCC had a switch to compile with I16 or I64, I could test,
but it does not. 'long', as used in the netfilter includes,
already bit people in pre-2.6.19, and nowadays we have that compat
crap thing in place.. Just don't take any chance, and go the safe
route with uint32_t.
Tons of APIs will break when the size of int changes and differs
between userspace and kernel, this is a non-realistic risk in my
opinion. I do however prefer the fixed types myself since they
make the size more visible.
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